ABSTRACT
Total productive maintenance (TPM) gives equal importance to early product management, early equipment management, and the other TPM activities. The basis of early management is of course economic performance evaluation and maintenance-prevention (MP) design. The life-cycle cost of a product, equipment item, or system is its total cost over the whole of its life. MP design activity minimizes future maintenance costs and deterioration losses of new equipment by taking into account maintenance data on current equipment and new technology and by designing for high reliability, maintainability, economy, operability, and safety. This chapter discusses design for manufacturability, one of TPM's main activities in the product development and design fields. An easy-to-make product is one for which the means of production are easily secured and cheap. The goal of debugging is to identify problems that slipped through the MP design net and eliminate them before the equipment comes on stream.
